Posted by Art on Monday, January 31, 2011 at 1:31am.
angular speed = 2 pi radians/27.3 days
linear speed = (orbit circumference)/(27.3 days)
They may want you to convert to radians and km per second. To do that, divide by the number of seconds in 27.3 days
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